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German authorities are waking up to a Windows 7 headache, with approximately €800,000 required in order to keep the elderly software supported a little longer.
Microsoft had long been warning users, both enterprises and individuals, that the end of support was nigh - 14 January - and made available various ways of keeping those updates flowing.
Alternatively there is always the option of a migration to Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) with three years of free-ish support (because, y'know, you still have to pay for those Azure resources).
Finally, customers that had ponied up the cash for an E5 subscription could also be entitled to an extra year of Windows 7 security updates, through to 2021 (assuming the subscription stays active).
Blighty's very own NHS is an example of just such an organisation, having splashed the cash for some E5 goodness.
The position in which the German government now finds itself might raise a wry smile somewhere in Seattle.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Saturday January 25 2020, @09:30AM (1 child)
Oh, bullshit. The base system plus Apache2 is immune to intrusion, firewall or not. Same for adding PHP until you use it for scripting. If he really did get pwned then it was because of some default passwords left in place in some PHP-based aftermarket add-on like WordPress. Either way, more details are needed about what he added and changed before your outlandish claim can be made to seem reasonable.
That does bring up the problem of default passwords and hardcoded keys. Both are severe problems but have nothing to do with GNU/Linux. Anything with a default password will get cracked early and often. Anthing with a hardcoded key will get also cracked but more slowly though inevitably.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:37PM
Sorry, no, it's not bullshit. I do know he changed the passwords to something long and unintelligible, because he gave his minions (of which I am one) each our own login credentials, and just wandering past got you ejected from the site. And since he's supposedly teaching us how to run the thing, he'd done videos on all his steps to create. It really was just Debian, Apache2, and PHP-current, and a bunch of copies of our PHP base (one copy for each minion), none of which actually did anything yet other than let us log in.
And next thing we hear is oh crap, got pwned, start over and this time remember the firewall!
Fortunately it was still just a setup test, no real data there.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.